A cavernous budget gap imperils Kansas. Lawmakers plan on filling it with helpless schoolchildren.

Troy Waymaster spilled the beans. The Bunker Hill Republican, speaking as the House passed its budget blueprint for the next year, all but admitted that Republicans plan to target K-12 school funding to balance the budget. Not this year, but soon. Kansas now spends about a half-billion dollars more annually than it collects in taxes. […]